Dotfiles

Guess I'm joining the club as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Usage

This project follows the approach of using a bare git repo to manage all config files. No symlinks or copying of files required. Another benefit of a bare repo is that it does not create a .git folder and therefore does not interfere with any other git projects in the home directory. More info can be found in this Atlassian blog post.

A Git alias (config) is used to manage all configuration files from the $HOME directory. By default all files which were not explicitly added are not shown in the config status.

Ansible is used to install the required software in a modular way.

Install / Setup

git clone --bare git@github.com:Sirius-A/dotfiles.git ~/.cfg

# Alternative If no ssh key is present yet
git clone --bare https://github.com/Sirius-A/dotfiles.git ~/.cfg

# Initial config alias setup
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

# Setup the configuration files from this repo
config checkout

# Install all the required software for your use case (remove unneeded tags)
cd dotfiles-ansible
ansible-playbook -i hosts dotfiles.yml --ask-become-pass --tags=shell,vim,desktop

# Ansible will setup zsh as the default shell. Do a re-log to make sure the correct configs are sourced

# Install tmux plugins
tmux
<prefix> + I # (Captial I)

Update / Add Configs

Updates are done through the config alias. (Just like any git project)

config add -p
config commit -m "update"
config push

Additional Configs

• VSCode settings and extensions are managed in a separate gist using the Settings Sync Extension.
• Theme for WSLtty / Mintty: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-mintty